Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Why hire a developer when you can hire a barist...

Why hire a developer when you can hire a barista and teach them to code?

Mike is the founder and CEO of the Sails framework (aka Sails.js). He asks: "Why hire a developer when you can hire a barista and teach them to code?"

POST/CON
June 7, 2018
San Francisco, CA
Dogpatch Studios
https://www.getpostman.com/post-con

Mike McNeil

June 07, 2018
Tweet

More Decks by Mike McNeil

Other Decks in Technology

Transcript

  1. The Company Mike McNeil @mikermcneil founder & CEO of sails

    co. digital studio (a.k.a. design/dev/product shop) open-source MVC framework for Node.js creator of
  2. Who are these "recruiters"? (One of them said I was

    a rockstar...) Ignore them, we'd miss you here!
  3. The Company Layout & markup Interactivity Rudimentary terminal skills Text

    editor / IDE setup Running a local server Onboarding Wireframing Browser dev tools Floats & how to clear them Flexbox Normal flow, positioning & z-index Namespacing & mixins Using {{dynamic}} data Conditional classes & HTML ., +, &&, ||, and ?: Handling DOM events Media queries & animations Committing, pulling, pushing, & merge conflicts encodeURIComponent() Creating new pages Communication & agile Using other preexisting UI components Creating email templates Custom modal dialogs Pull requests
  4. The Company DevOps & QA HTTP & APIs Forms &

    persistence AJAX forms Loading states Client-side validation Server-side errors Routes & actions Querying the database Basic QA skills Server-side rendering Deploying to staging Using the REPL / db client to access the staging db DNS & registrar Reading 3rd party API docs Using Postman Making HTTP requests in server- side code SSL cert & redirects Setting environment variables Language/framework-specific configuration basics Reading 3rd party API docs Encoding request data & headers, parsing response data & headers Creating reusable helpers Negotiating errors, throwing custom errors, & using status codes
  5. The Company File uploads Security Messaging features Expiring, one-time-use tokens

    Scalability When to paginate Controlling the size of query result sets Stability Timeouts, retries & exponential backoff Most common language-specific gotchas Managing API rate limits Optimization Running things in parallel Secure file uploads Negotiating errors & throwing custom errors Reducing the # of queries and other async operations Using native queries & batch operations S3 bucket configuration Safe stream processing Listening for WebSocket messages in the browser Subscribing & broadcasting on the server PCI compliance re charging a card or enrolling a customer in subscription billing Automated SMS & emails Hashed passwords Untrusted requests Enforcing size quotas